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Wanting to
raise their family in a rural environment, the Meads relocated from
San Francisco to Sonoma Valley with their two young daughters. They
found a 4+-acre building site that had extensive views across the
Valley, a seasonal creek, and a huge old ash tree. Reminiscent of
the rural farmhouses in the immediate area, the Mead Residence is
a rambling, single-story, white clapboard house with a green shingle
roof. A generous shaded porch wraps around the house providing plenty
of reprieve from the hot sun on summer days, while a screened porch
extends the living space outdoors for additional seasonal comfort.
The plan of the house is configured into four main zones connected
by a large entry space: the family room/kitchen area, the dining room/living
room and study, the girls’ wing, and the master bedroom wing.
Pulling the plan apart into these four zones maximizes the interaction
of the home with its surroundings while introducing generous natural
daylight streaming into the house from all directions.
A detached garage with a second floor studio was located remotely
from the residence. The house, detached garage, a separate pool area,
and plans for a future guest house add to the feeling of a compound
of outbuildings that is so appropriate to the rural farmhouses in
the area. The house is of an intimate scale and texture to facilitate
a very comfortable and informal lifestyle, despite some of the formal
relationships of the floor plan. |
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